The Music Instinct

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<p><b>Why have all human cultures - today and throughout history - made music? Why does music excite such rich emotion? How do we make sense of musical sound?</b></p><p>These are questions that have, until recently, remained mysterious. Now<i>The Music Instinct</i>explores how the latest research in music psychology and brain science is piecing together the puzzle of how our minds understand and respond to music. Ranging from Bach fugues to nursery rhymes to heavy rock, Philip Ball interweaves philosophy, mathematics, history and neurology to reveal why music moves us in so many ways.</p><p>Without requiring any specialist knowledge,<i>The Music Instinct</i>will both deepen your appreciation of the music you love, and open doors to music that once seemed alien, dull or daunting, offering a passionate plea for the importance of music in education and in everyday life.</p><p><b>'You'll never listen to music the same way again' -<i>Independent</i></b></p>

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<b>Philip Ball</b>writes regularly in the scientific and popular media and worked for many years as an editor for physical sciences at<i>Nature</i>. His books cover a wide range of scientific and cultural phenomena, and include<i>Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads To Another</i>(winner of the 2005 Aventis Prize for Science Books),<i>The Music Instinct</i>,<i>Curiosity: How Science Became Interested in Everything,</i><i>Serving The Reich: The Struggle for the Soul of Science Under Hitler</i>and<i>Invisible: The history of the Unseen from Plato to Particle Physics</i>.

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